Currently in the midst of a multi-year independent research study, Marzano Research Laboratory has recently published their interim findings entitled, “A Evaluation Study of the Effects of the Promethean ActivClassroom on Student Achievement.”

This study involved over 3,000 students, 79 teachers and 50 schools throughout the United States engaged in a thorough analysis of several key research questions all centering on the effect of the entire Promethean ActivClassroom: Promethean ActivBoard, ActiVotes or ActivExpressions, ActivSoftware, ActivPD and Promethean Planet.

So what can teachers do to apply the findings of this research into their classrooms? Well, how about with the exclusive Marzano Research Laboratory Learning Goals Templates resource pack on Planet?

Teaching is an Art

Using principles from Marzano’s book The Art & Science of Teaching, this resource pack includes 20 templates that can help you set clear learning goals and track students’ understanding of these goals. You can start at the beginning (they unpack in order) and use the first template to set the learning goals, and continue to work through the resource pack until you end with the plenary template.

Use with ActiVote or ActivExpression

These templates are perfect with your Learner Response Systems as they include voting options incorporated into the pages - use them to determine how much your students knew about the topic before the lesson and how much more they know after the lesson.

Revealing More Than Just Answers

In addition to giving your students clear learning goals, the templates can also reveal more than just the answers. For example, who doesn’t understand the topic? Who needs me to explain more? What did we not cover that you still need to know?